Saturday, April 18, 2009

Spring is here!

Highs were in the low 70's today, and I did my best to make the most of it. The big lakes were too murky to catch anything, but the lagoon in Vilas Park was doing just fine. There's never anything big in there, but I had a good time catching small sunfish. Caught a total of 11 bluegill and 4 pumpkinseeds. I could see bass and a couple muskies swimming around, but they had their minds on other things (and aren't legal to fish for yet).



This time of year there is always a crowd of people at the dam separating Wingra Creek from Lake Wingra. There is a sign up that says no fishing allowed, so why are they there? The muskies are trying to jump up the dam to make their way to spawning grounds in Lake Wingra! The following two pics are of a musky swimming under the creek side of the dam, and one that made it over the waterfall and was building up courage to swim the rest of the way to the lake side of the dam.



4 comments:

Wolfy said...

Nice pics of the muskies, Ben!

Jeff Douglas said...

I'm glad your fishing season has started. It will be fun to follow your new season of fishing in Madison.

MIZLAN DARKARTCASTER said...

nice catch Ben! hope you will catch more and bigger fish in this new season

BT said...

Muskies that accessible. Sweet.

I had to borrow a few of your Japanese palls pics especially the one where he's staring down the mouth of the LMB. Classic!

Good job on the blog Ben!